From: "Randy Holcomb" 

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
news:38d53cc0$1{at}w3.nls.net... | As a Canadian (i.e. not an American!) what
I find most interesting about | this, and this type of story, is the legal
extra-territoriality that is | implicit (maybe explicit) in these
judgments. It's happening a lot these | days, and I doubt we have seen the
end of it. |
| I also find it interesting that the US media rarely comments overtly on
this | angle, except as a simple matter of stating the facts (e.g.
"the hackers | live in Sweden and Canada). No one seems to find it
odd, or if they do they | are silent about it, that a Boston judge would
try to order Canadians and | Swedes around.
|
| This has been an on again off again sore spot up here for years, and we
seem | to be entering a new era where US judges believe that their
judgments should | carry weight around the world.
|

CNN picked up the story and gave it a little better play WRT the
international border issue:

http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/21/cyberpatrol.decoder/

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